| Appalachian football prepares for season, game
against University of Hawaii |
by Hugh Kellenberger
Staff Writer |
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| Peter Larkins | The Appalachian |
| Mountaineers get prepared for Saturday’s
game against Hawaii. Four pre-season All-Southern Conference
players lead the ASU defense set on stopping the Warriors
attack. Hawaii’s Heisman contending quarterback will
not play in the game. |
Timmy Chang, University of
Hawaii’s Heisman-contender quarterback, will not play in this
Saturday’s game against ASU.
Chang, a junior, was suspended by the NCAA for
one game after he violated the Western Athletic Conference’s
new six-credit rule, University of Hawaii Associate Athletics Director
Tom Sadler said Thursday on the UH Athletics Website.
Jason Whieldon, a senior, will start in place
of Chang. Whieldon played in four games last fall, completing 8
of 18 passes for 92 yards and three touchdowns as the third-string
quarterback.
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| Appalachian soccer adjusts to new coaching staff,
tough road schedule |
by Hugh Kellenberger
Staff Writer |
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| Josh Brown | Chief Photographer |
| ASU Men’s Soccer team
has new challenges this year. They have a new coach, new playing
surface, and a difficult schedule. 21 players are returning
from a 13-5-1 squad for the season. They finished second in
the conference last year. |
The Appalachian State University Men’s Soccer
team will try to overcome the challenges of a new coach, a new playing
surface, and an extremely difficult road schedule this season.
Head coach Paul Stahlschmidt has a strong nucleus, 21 players in
total, returning from a 13-5-1 squad that could prove to pay dividends
down the road.
“The key is the leadership carrying us through,”
Stahlschmidt said.
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| Cross country hopes to win SoCon again |
by Michael Trivette
Staff Writer |
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| Jacque Lenz | The Appalachian |
| The men’s and women’s
cross-country team want to repeat last year’s success.
First home meet is Aug. 29. |
The men and women’s cross-country team aim toward another
consecutive Southern Conference championship this season.
“We could finish anywhere from first to fourth in the Southern
Conference right now because there’s so much balance,”
said Michael Curcio, who returns to his ninth season as head coach.
“The favorite’s got to be University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
They were second to us last year and they returned their entire
team,” Curcio said.
UTC finished second to both the men and women’s team at the
SoCon championship last year.
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| Women’s Field Hockey team has insurmountable
odds, 6 freshmen |
by Hugh Kellenberger
Staff Writer |
The ASU Women’s Field Hockey
Team faces some potentially insurmountable odds. Freshmen outnumber
seniors 3-1. There is a rookie head coach in charge of a squad that
finished 5-13 in 2002. The schedule includes a date with the national
champions Wake Forest. And the new home field surface leaves little
to be desired for this game.
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| Volleyball gets new coaching staff |
by Michael Trivette
Staff Writer |
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| Foster Hunt | The Appalachian |
| Mountaineer women’s volleyball
team prepares for their new season with a new coaching staff.
Their first regular season game is against Virginia Commonwealth
University on Aug. 29 in High Point. |
The women’s volleyball team welcomes a new
coaching staff to an experienced team this season.
Joining the Mountaineers will be first-year head coach Chad Callihan
along with first-year assistant coach Crystal Poskey. Poskey is
a former Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year at Francis Marion
University in Florence, S.C. while Callihan comes from coaching
four years at Radford University in Radford, Va.
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| Fava takes assistant athletic training position
for Mountaineers |
by Michael Trivette
Staff Writer |
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| Foster Hunt | The Appalachian |
| New assistant athletic trainer,
Nicole Fava, will mainly work with the men and women’s
cross country and women’s basketball at ASU. |
There will be a new face inside the athletic training rooms of
Appalachian State University.
The Mountaineers welcome Nicole Fava as their new assistant athletic
trainer.
“This is a great opportunity as my first job out of grad school,
and I’m just expecting it to challenge me on an everyday basis
so that I continue to grow as an athletic trainer,” Fava said.
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